David almond



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' D. ALMOND,

Fur Mixeror Deviling Machine.

No. 230,164. Patented July 20, 1880..

N. PETERS, PHOTD-LITHOGRAFHER, WASHINGTON D C UNITED STATES PATENTOFFICEO DAVID ALMOND, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

FUR-MIXER OR DEVlLlNG-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 230,164, dated July 20,1880.

Application filed Juno 4, 1880.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, DAVID ALMOND, of Newark,in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented a new anduseful Improvement in a Fur-Mixer or Deviling-Machine, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to the process of securing the teeth in a fur-mixer0r (leviling-machine to make them stronger and more secure than theyhave hitherto been.

The teeth have formerly been set in the cylinder and in the shell byscrew-threading each and screwing the teeth in place, or by putting theshank through the cylinder, 850., and turnin gaunt on theend. They werealso made with a shoulder setting against the cylinder, 850., leavingthe shank smaller than the shoulder portion and weaker than it shouldbe.

In either of the above methods of securing the teeth they were liable toget loose and come out, whieh,when one did in the machine, it wroughtmuch damage, knocking out other teeth, 8w. 7

To overcome these difficulties is the object of my invention; and itconsists in the process, as herein described, of rendering the teethstronger and positively fixed in their position.

The figure is a section, in elevation, of so (No model.)

much of the machine as will be needed to show the position of the teeth.

The teeth A are forged with the shank B, having parallel sides and noshoulder. The

shanks of the teeth are dipped in a flux of 5 borax in solution, or someequivalent flux, and the teeth are then set in the mold in the placesthey are to occupy in the cylinder 0 and the shell D, so that the metal,when cast to them,

will close about the shanks and over the ends,

and become so thoroughly incorporated with the teeth that anyloosening-of the teeth will be impossible, as the surface of the shanksand of the ends of the teeth will be fusedor welded in with the castmetal, and the shank being 5 the full size, without a shoulder, will beless liable ever to be broken off.

\Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is

The process of securing the teeth in a for 0 mixer or deviling-machine,substantially asherein shown and described, consisting in dipping theshank end of the teeth in a suitable flux in solution and in placing theteeth in the molds and casting" them into the cylinder

